Today we’re going to talk about some elements that are often used in Hyperrealism: glass, shop-windows and reflections. Actually, these elements were peculiarities of Photorealism.Photorealism officially born in 1969 when Louis K. Meiselhave coined this term for an exhibition and it’s the father of Hyperrealism. Among other aspect, one differentiates from the other because Hyperrealism inspects more on details and add some things that are not in the photo reference, so Hyperrealists don’t make a technically amazing copy of a photo. But, back to our theme, let’s talk about glasses.

Take a picture of you with sunglasses. Forget your face, now you could see that in your sunglasses there’s something reflected. So, you just have to paint it!Simon Hennessey is a real expert of this type of “reflections”…

But why so many Hyperrealists used to paint glasses and similar? Because reflections made by shiny surfaces give a great realistic effect and the eye of the artist is assisted to catch every little part to reproduce.